Nearly 300 restaurants will participate next month in Denver Restaurant Week, the annual promotional campaign run by the city of Denver’s tourism association.
For ten nights from March 6 to 15, the restaurants offer a special multi-course dinner menu at four price categories between $25 and $55 per person. Appetizers, entrees, dessert and, at some places, even a libation are included.
Visit Denver, the nonprofit trade group that organizes Denver Restaurant Week, posted the participating restaurants and their menus online earlier this month. Since the event is marketed widely, it helps to make a reservation or walk in during the earlier part of the week.
With so many restaurants to choose from, The Denver Post is highlighting ten offering an extra something special for their price.
Yu’s Noodle Shop ($25)
One of the restaurants in the metro where you can see the cooks stretching and pulling noodles by hand, Yu’s Noodle Shop is also a popular lunch spot at a large shopping complex in Lone Tree. From 4 to 9 p.m., the Chinese restaurant has a three-course meal for $25, starting with a spicy wonton or soup dumpling appetizer, one of four noodle dishes (including the steaming beef noodle soup) as an entree and matcha cheesecake for dessert.
9996 Commons St. #310, Lone Tree
Tacos Tequila Whiskey ($35)
The $35 special menu at Tacos Tequila Whiskey, a Mexican food restaurant in west Denver, takes care of the complete meal. Customers can pick three tacos with chicken, beef, seafood or veggie fillings; an appetizer of chips and dip, chicharrones or corn with bone marrow butter; and for dessert, tres leches cake or churros with chocolate sauce. The first drink is on the house, too.
3300 W. 32nd Ave., Denver
Piano player Buddy Bravo performs for the crowd at Champagne Tiger on Pasta and Piano Night in Denver, on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post)
Champagne Tiger ($45)
Want to champion Colfax Avenue restaurants as public-transit construction continues to make a dent in their clientele? Consider paying a visit to Champagne Tiger in Capitol Hill, a restaurant in a repurposed diner known best for its weekend drag brunches. The $45 menu offers solid bites — try their Santa Fe-style pork green chile, maitake mushroom linguine and pistachio twinkie — and an opportunity to see a changing city through the tall windows of a swanky locale.
601 E. Colfax Ave., Denver
The Hampton Social ($45)
The patio and outside seating at the Hampton Social overlooks the Highland Bridge crossing Interstate 25 and the Lower Highlands behind it. It’s a great vantage point that sounds more exclusive than it actually is, especially during Denver Restaurant Week. Their $45 dinner menu offers eight choices for appetizers and six for entrees, including prime rib on a French roll with au jus and a truffle lobster melt and bisque. Caramel lava cake is one of three dessert options.
2501 16th St., Denver
The Melting Pot ($45)
Some Denver Restaurant Week deals have the added advantage of taking place in the historic districts of Denver’s suburbs. The Melting Pot in Littleton is inside of a repurposed 19th-century library that caps its Main Street. That location and the one in Louisville are surrounded by gift and thrift shops, arts centers, government facilities and watering holes. Take a stroll around the block before or after dinner. Cheese and chocolate fondue and an entree are included in the Melting Pot’s $45 menu.
2707 Main St., Littleton and 732 Main St., Louisville
Assorted macaroons and berries will end a 3-course meal for $45 at the Ship Tavern, inside the Brown Palace, during Denver Restaurant Week from Mar. 6 to 15. (Photo by Daniel Brenner/Special to The Denver Post)
The Ship Tavern ($45)
For those that haven’t been inside the Brown Palace Hotel and Spa since it came under new management last year, two of its restaurants are offering specials as an incentive to see them in a new light. The Ship Tavern, the hotel’s nautical-themed seafood restaurant and bar, has a $45 three-course meal that starts with a wedge salad or clam chowder, features a 10-oz slow roasted prime rib or fish and chips and ends with assorted macarons. For $55 a person, experience the Napoleonic splendor of the Palace Arms, its steak frites or coq au vin and butterscotch caramel cream for dessert.
321 17th St., Denver
The Fort ($45)
The Fort, a staple in Colorado mountain dining, is also participating in Denver Restaurant Week in light of new management. Family owner Holly Arnold Kinney sold the Morrison restaurant earlier this year to redevelopers who say it will keep operating as it has since the ’60s, when it opened as a fur-trading fort replica. For $45, roam around Morrison and dine on beef sirloin and quail, bison bratwurst and quail or stuffed poblano peppers.
19192 CO-8, Morrison
Johnny Bechamel's restaurant in Denver, Colorado on Wednesday, Dec. 17, 2025. (Photo by Hyoung Chang/The Denver Post)
Johnny Bechamel’s ($55)
One of the newest restaurants in the lineup is Johnny Bechamel’s, from the team behind Denver’s Dio Mio and Redeemer Pizza. The restaurant opened in December and has built a buzz behind its refined Italian-American food. Its $55 four-course dinner features braised short rib with polenta and spicy a la vodka rigatoni as entrees and a passionfruit beignet and Nutella cake as desserts.
81 S. Pennsylvania St., Denver
Kumoya ($55)
Another name that has built significant hype since opening in 2023 inside the onetime location of Tony P’s in Highlands is Kumoya, a Japanese restaurant concept from Culinary Creative Group. Fans of delicacies such as steamed egg, sashimi and melt-in-your-mouth broiled eggplant would delight in its $55 menu. So would anyone who likes their restaurants sleek, low-lit and alive with conversation.
2400 W. 32nd Ave., Denver
Molotov Kitschen + Cocktails ($55)
There are altruistic reasons to visit Molotov Kitschen + Cocktails, a Ukrainian restaurant directly facing Colfax Avenue street construction for the foreseeable future. There is also a simpler reason: chef Bo Porytko is just known for making creative, standout food. For Denver Restaurant Week, his $55 menu features takes on Eastern and Central European dishes, including potato and gruyere pierogi, sweet potato latke and, as an entree, braised lamb dushenina, a traditional Ukrainian stew.
3333 E. Colfax Ave., Denver
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